50 things that the Internet has killed: Reflections on the Net
The statement may seem obvious, but it is worth recalling: Internet has changed our lives , for better or for worse, depending on your point of view, but the everyday life of the first network does not recur, unless you change the planet. Describe the social, economic and political changes that the World Wide Web has brought to the world is a difficult task, but Matthew Moore, Telegraph journalist, has written a personal list of 50 things or activities that the Internet has swept away with its advent.
Some points are indisputable, others humorous, some questionable, but it seems appropriate to read the article and look beyond the lines: a reflection on the phenomenon of the Web can be beneficial to both the general culture, its ability to project into the future, looking to the medium and its pervasiveness as a way to achieve ambitious goals even .
Among the aspects of corporate culture, and not always positive, the author points out how the Internet has affected part of the correct event thinking, enabling them to anyone, even mistakenly, debates and feed them to turn in something less than ethical. The sex lives of adolescents has been devastated by the Internet: buy these products online porn fueling a market that is not always maintained the legality, the music is both a beneficiary and victim of excellent Internet: you download individual songs more often - sometimes conflict with the copyright - to the detriment of the album, but that once you buy carefully in its entirety, even if you only heard in part.
Looking at the costumes, Matthew Moore points out that the advent of internet connections, as that of mobile phones, has "killed" on-time people, communicating a message with your late for an appointment only a few minutes before the time fixed, when this was not possible in the past, and also because it is known that all can be found quickly on the Internet, more information is not stored, reducing the use of personal memory.
But because everything besides the other hand, has the pro, we can say in return that urban legends have been on borrowed time, they are regularly denied the Net, and so is the golden magic that movies and TV series have built around celebrities: Internet reveals the secrets, sins, errors, revealing to us what humanity is built around characters from TV or from the collective , forcing us to look at what we never wanted to see.